I haven't done a 7QT in at least a month! Here is the story of our moving trip.
1- New York City. Not too sad to leave. I do miss the sisters. It was so nice to go there for mass in the morning, sometimes I would have a coffee with them, or just show Sr Rita some tips for her computer.. Anyway, we left at 7 am on a beautiful morning, we put some music on ("Sweet home Chicago") and we took our first stop in Cracker Barrel for a big filling breakfast.
Did I mention how much I love Cracker Barrel?
2- After a few more hours on the road we arrived at the Canadian border around 2 PM. The border guards were very nice. I don't know if my speaking French helped. Mr L was a little more stressed than me. The guard was not thrilled that we decided to take a trip to Canada with a truck full of card boxes. But they didn't bother us too much. We waited a few minutes for tehm to check our paperwork, and off we went! Our first night on the road was in Montreal. We visited a little, and then went for diner at "le pied de cochon" a famous foie gras restaurant. I had foie gras poutine which was delicious! I asked what the sauce was made of, (please sit): pork and duck fat, reduced with cream!!!! LOL! Oh well it's a once in a lifetime experience..
3- The following morning I woke up very early and went to the hotel swimming pool. It felt great! My wonderful husband looked for hotels with swimming pools, so we could get some moving around for our legs. I enjoyed every minute of it! We originally planed on staying in Montreal for most of the day and drive in the afternoon, but we couldn't get a subway ticket (they won't accept american or european cards, so no ATM, so no canadian money, so no subway! not super tourist friendly IMO). Bref we left early again and drove to Toronto. I think we stopped in a small fries schack. My stomach had had enough with fries (with just one day!).. In Toronto we had some fun and interesting discussion looking for the hotel. The main debate was over using the iphone or following street directions. The old way won in Canada. No way to find your way with iphone GPS...4- We left Toronto early again, and got to... The Niagara Falls. This was AWESOME. Literally. Probably my favorite part of the trip.
We did a short but oh so beautiful walk in the Niagara State Park.
The rapids...
5- After Niagara we went to Buffalo, which is not too far. Very cool city. I would love to go back. We went to a Jesuit church and then to sandwiches in a big brewery. It was very laid back. Buffalo is definetly on my list of good surprises. I like it more than Canada (no offense if you're Canadian)
the big sculpture on the left is " The lake effect man" he is protecting from the wind (and I guess ready to enjoy a good sandwich and beer at the brewery).From Buffalo we went to Cleveland where we spend the night. They had a NICE swimming pool in the Cleveland (m/h?)otel.6- After all that road we were just tired of driving.. So the driver decided to go as close to CHicago as possible. We did the last part of the road listening to the audio book of Lewis and CLarck, how wonderful to listen to this on the road!! I loved it! I hope I can finish it someday (it's an 18 hours audio book)
I could imagin the bears ready to jump on us! Well it doesn't look this wild on the side of the road, but the idea of how much forest and wild land there is gives me chills. In Europe every square inch of forest is controlled by forest guardians. Not that they hang out in every corner, what I mean is they control the growth and death of trees, they regulate wild life and hunting areas... Big wide and wild spaces are just unbelievable to me!7- We went back to Cracker Barrel in the morning, before our very short drive home. :) We also stopped by ikea to get a couple things for the house. And by 1pm we were there. Ready to unpack!
Thank you chauffeur :)
(yes I don't have a driver licence, I don't even know how to start an automatic car... He did the 2000 miles all by himself!)
2 comments:
Is that your husband! He has RED hair! I have to pause for a moment b/c well, I didn't even know I had a mental image of what your husband must look like... until now. And it didn't involve red hair. He's a cutie, huh? I mean, does he ever get mad. He doesn't look like he could get mad.
Love the pictures!!
You had a very lovely trip. I love Niagara Falls but we mostly skipped Buffalo when we did that trip. I too love Cracker Barrel, but I would have skipped the goose and pork fat with cream thing!
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